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100 1 $aHood, Roger G.
245 14 $aThe death penalty :$ba worldwide perspective /$cRoger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle.
250 $a4th edition, rev. and expanded.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2008.
300 $axi, 486 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [422]-454) and index.
505 0 $a1. Sources of Information -- 2. Plan of the Book -- 3. The Approach Taken towards Capital Punishment -- 1. The Abolitionist Movement: Progress and Prospects -- 1. The Pace of Abolition -- 2. Generating the New Wave of Abolition -- 3. What Prospects for International Acceptance or Rejection of Capital Punishment? -- 2. In the Vanguard of Abolition -- 1. Western Europe and Australasia: Death Penalty Free Zones -- 2. Eastern Europe: Embracing Abolition -- 3. States of the Former Soviet Union: From Moratoria to Abolition De Jure -- 4. South and Central America: Long-term Supporters of Abolition -- 3. Where Capital Punishment Remains Contested -- 1. The Middle East and North Africa: Cracks in the Bastion? -- 2. Africa South of the Sahara: Resistance to Abolition Crumbling? -- 3. Asia and the Pacific: Opening up the Issue -- 4. The Caribbean: Colonial Legacies -- 5. North America: Faltering Support -- 4. The Scope of Capital Punishment in Law -- 1. Offences Punishable By Death -- 2. The Scale of Death Sentences and Executions -- 5. The Death Penalty in Reality: The Process of Execution and the Death Row Experience -- 1. Executing those found to be Guilty -- 2. Under Sentence of Death -- 3. Conclusion -- 6. Excluding the Vulnerable from Capital Punishment -- 1. Juvenile Defendants -- 2. The Question of the Aged -- 3. The Exemption of Pregnant Women -- 4. The Status of the Mentally Retarded -- 5. Protection of the Insane and Severely Mentally Ill -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Protecting the Accused and Ensuring Due Process -- 1. International Standards -- 2. Ensuring a Fair Trial -- 3. The Right to Appeal -- 4. The Right to Seek a Pardon, Clemency, or Commutation of Sentence -- 5. Finality of Judgment: Awaiting the Outcome of Legal Proceedings -- 6. Wrongful Convictions and Innocent Persons Exonerated -- 7. Conclusions -- 8. Deciding Who Should Die: Problems of Inequity, Arbitrariness, and Racial Discrimination -- 1. Mandatory or Discretionary? -- 2. Legal Analyses: The American Experience -- 3. Criminological Investigations -- 4. Policy Implications -- 9. The Question of Deterrence -- 1. Reliance on the Deterrent Justification -- 2. Conceptual Issues: The Need for Clarification -- 3. General Deterrence in Context -- 4. Assessing Homicide Trends -- 5. The Comparative Method -- 6. Measuring the Immediate Impact -- 7. The Econometric Model -- 8. Methodological Problems in Measuring the Deterrent Effect -- 9. Implications for Policy -- 10. A Question of Opinion or a Question of Principle? -- 1. Public Opinion and the Politics of Abolition -- 2. The Nature of Public Opinion -- 3. Changing Public Opinion -- 4. Abolition and its Effect on Public Opinion -- 5. The Impact of Victims' Advocates on Support for the Death Penalty -- 6. A Question of Principle -- 11. The Challenge of a Suitable Replacement -- 1. The Nature of the Challenge -- 2. The Range of Alternative Penalties -- 3. The Ascendancy of Life Without Parole in America -- 4. Life Without Hope: The New Challenge to Human Dignity -- 5. Conditions of Confinement -- 6. The Challenge of Sentencing Juveniles Convicted of Murder -- 7. Implications for Policy -- App. 1. Lists of Retentionist and Abolitionist Countries -- App. 2. Ratification of International Treaties -- App. 3. International Instruments.
650 0 $aCapital punishment.
700 1 $aHoyle, Carolyn.
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